NumPy 2.4.1 Release Notes

The NumPy 2.4.1 is a patch release that fixes bugs discoved after the
2.4.0 release. In particular, the typo SeedlessSequence is preserved to
enable wheels using the random Cython API and built against NumPy < 2.4.0
to run without errors.

This release supports Python versions 3.11-3.14

Contributors

A total of 9 people contributed to this release. People with a "+" by their
names contributed a patch for the first time.

• Alexander Shadchin
• Bill Tompkins +
• Charles Harris
• Joren Hammudoglu
• Marten van Kerkwijk
• Nathan Goldbaum
• Raghuveer Devulapalli
• Ralf Gommers
• Sebastian Berg

Pull requests merged

A total of 15 pull requests were merged for this release.

• #30490: MAINT: Prepare 2.4.x for further development
• #30503: DOC: numpy.select: fix default parameter docstring...
• #30504: REV: Revert part of #30164 (#30500)
• #30506: TYP: numpy.select: allow passing array-like default...
• #30507: MNT: use if constexpr for compile-time branch selection
• #30513: BUG: Fix leak in flat assignment iterator
• #30516: BUG: fix heap overflow in fixed-width string multiply (#30511)
• #30523: BUG: Ensure summed weights returned by np.average always are...
• #30527: TYP: Fix return type of histogram2d
• #30594: MAINT: avoid passing ints to random functions that take double...
• #30595: BLD: Avoiding conflict with pygit2 for static build
• #30596: MAINT: Fix msvccompiler missing error on FreeBSD
• #30608: BLD: update vendored Meson to 1.9.2
• #30620: ENH: use more fine-grained critical sections in array coercion...
• #30623: BUG: Undo result type change of quantile/percentile but keep...